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We are the industry leader, growing rapidly, and backed by more than $25 million from leading investors, including Quiet Capital, Shine Capital, and General Catalyst.\nEvery year, hundreds of billions of dollars in crop value are lost because critical farming decisions are made using incomplete and imprecise data. We’re building the technology to change that.\nOur AI-powered camera systems mount to tractors and scan millions of trees, vines, and plants, capturing precise data on yield estimates, fruit size, crop health, disease, and more. We train edge vision AI models that analyze every plant and determine exactly what interventions and treatments it needs. That intelligence flows into FruitScope OS, our farm-management platform, where growers can understand their crops, make better decisions, and direct operations in the field.\nToday, Orchard’s technology is trusted by some of our nation’s largest farms. They use our products to grow higher-quality crops while reducing chemical use and operating costs, helping them farm more profitably and sustainably than ever before.\nOur Culture:\nUnshakeable Resilience - Our customers feed millions of people, and our customers depend on us. We are ultra-hardworking, never give up, and we do whatever it takes.\n\nAlways Keep Moving - We move fast, waste no time, and have an extreme bias towards action. Progress compounds every day, and our impact is measured in decades.\n\nImprove Everything - At 1% success, we save millions of pounds of food from going to waste. If we are 100% successful we will impact the lives of billions of people across the world.\n\nFarmers First - Every team member spends at least a few days in the fields with our farmers each month.\n\nNo Job Beneath Us - We’re low ego, own every outcome, and are all working towards the same goal.\n\nThe Role:\nIn order to analyze billions of fruit on farms all year long, our advanced, tractor-mounted camera systems have to know a.) precisely where they are, and b.) everything about the fruit they are seeing. In addition, all of this happens fast, on compute running on the edge, in complex, real-world environments where our systems are subject to all sorts of conditions.\nWe are looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to invent creative, practical, and robust solutions to real-world computer vision problems relating to perception and localization.\nAbout the role:\nFull-time, in-person role at our San Francisco or Seattle office\n\nComprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental coverage, and we cover 100% of the premium\n\nWe move fast, and sometimes this means staying late or working weekends\n\nOur team is close-knit & highly driven, you’ll work directly with our CEO and entire team\n\nWe’re deeply motivated by the impact we’re making - every line of code written or new system built means less food that goes to waste, and more people who are fed.\n\nWhat you’ll do:\nDevelop robotics software that runs on our tractor-mounted, AI-powered camera systems, including advanced perception & 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